Constructor Idea

guitarism · Post by **guitarism** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:34 pm

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Have you even seen an ASS ship? You know why you dont? Because when they do get in, they slip away so fast its not even funny. That what they are.. Anyway, the point is it's broken and wouldn't be implemented not in DN anyway, go take this idea to... EOR /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

CronoDroid · Post by **CronoDroid** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:21 am

It's pretty hard to stop an Ass Ship when you don't even know they have one. I've never seen a team go "Oh they have Adv Tac, let's go probe alephs". Personal experience dictates you need to lose an op or a tele first before that happens.

Psychosis · Post by **Psychosis** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:07 am

only the nuub ass ships get eyed. If you do it right, you have a scout in stealth mode, rip to you, clear out all the probes on alephs, while you sneak around the outskirts of the sector. youll never see it coming

Terralthra · Post by **Terralthra** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:32 pm

guitarism wrote:QUOTE (guitarism @ Mar 1 2007, 05:34 AM) ...
Have you even seen an ASS ship? You know why you dont? Because when they do get in, they slip away so fast its not even funny. That what they are.. Anyway, the point is it's broken and wouldn't be implemented not in DN anyway, go take this idea to... EOR /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

guitarism · Post by **guitarism** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:59 pm

Sorry Terra, just had to do it, the joke kidna wrote itself...

Anguirel · Post by **Anguirel** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:28 pm

guitarism wrote:QUOTE (guitarism @ Mar 3 2007, 02:59 PM) Sorry Terra, just had to do it, the joke kidna wrote itself...

Didn't EoR have the piloted TP-Con (which actually dropped very-long-lived TP-probes which used the base model)? So... it's not entirely a joke...

jgbaxter · Post by **jgbaxter** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:26 pm

I do remember something like that, though iirc it only partially worked.

Dengaroth · Post by **Dengaroth** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:49 am

It does (Belters only) - drops teles, and it works just fine. There used to be a problem with the probes self-destructing, but ever since that got taken out of the code in R1, it works to specification.

Clay_Pigeon · Post by **Clay_Pigeon** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:10 am

I think the only (minor) hitch with Belters tele probe is that AI craft won't rip to it, since it is a tp probe (with very long life and base hull). Still, it otherwise works perfectly and gives Belters a way of quick expansion/response to enemy movements. I've always wondered what would happen in early game if a nanned tele con drove into the enemy's home and dropped a teleprobe. The thing takes forever to activate, but if the commander wasn't planning on buying EoR's expensive bombers, it could get really ugly.

Dengaroth · Post by **Dengaroth** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:02 am

It takes 60s to activate... and is light hull (like small giga bases), so the enemy could just dumb/plasma it into oblivion before it activates.